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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Every
generation thinks it invented sex. I
know we “free love” lovin’ Baby Boomers certainly thought we did or, at the
very least, that we perfected it. Deep
down we knew that our parents must have done it at least once (“Wait….how many
brothers and sisters do I have? Yuck!!),
but apparently all of that stopped in 1962 when this man ruined America’s love
live for the next 30 years.

Don’t take
my word for it. Here’s what Sex Therapist
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a frequent guest on The
Tonight Show, said about its host, the inimitable Johnny Carson.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Have I
mentioned the big event coming up for us this summer? No?
Well, this summer we will be taking an incredible journey with gods,
demigods, giants, dragons, dwarves, flying horses, magic swords and water
nymphs. Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the
Nibelung) thrusts you into a wild world of lust, anger, love and hate, adultery
and incest, murder, death and destruction, and a wronged woman’s final
revenge. It’s a helluva ride.

We’ve been
on this ride many times before. Dan and
I are among the hard core “Ring Nuts” who’ll go anywhere in the world for a
complete “Ring Cycle.” But this time, we
will actually be seeing the “Ring Cycle” at the festspielhaus, the opera house Wagner built in Bayreuth, Germany, for
his masterpiece. For Wagner groupies
this is Mecca. Recipients of the coveted
tickets are drawn from a lottery that contains hundreds of thousands of names
every year. This year our names were
selected.

What does
this have to do with shoes? Well,
everything. A girl can’t attend a
special, perhaps once in a lifetime, event without a very special pair of new
shoes, n’est-ce pas? And, so, the hunt for the perfect pair of
special occasion shoes was on!